California's court-appointed prison medical overseer J. Clark Kelso has asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to force the state to pay $8 billion over the next five years to improve...
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf should resign from office immediately, US Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) said in a statement released on Monday. The same day that Pakistan's Punjab Provincial Assembly voted...
French judges have launched an investigation into torture allegations by a Palestinian doctor who was detained in Libya for eight years after being accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV, a judicial official said...
US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials accused of politicizing the hiring process will likely not face criminal prosecution, Attorney General Michael Mukasey told members of the American Bar Association on Tuesday. Mukasey criticized [prepared remarks;...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to rule on whether Exxon Mobil owes interest on a punitive damages award entered against it for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill...
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against members of the Bush administration which was brought by Valerie Plame , the former Central Intelligence Agency...
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court on Tuesday upheld a state ban on smoking in public restaurants and bars in Bavaria. The Bavarian ban is the strictest in the nation,...
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia last week denied a request made by six ethnic Uighur Guantanamo detainees to be transferred to less restrictive facilities within...
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Tuesday issued a closing order to officially indict former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav , also known...
Attempts to bring war crimes suspect and former fugitive Radovan Karadzic to trial were long delayed by the US, France, and England, a former spokesperson for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia...
